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I probably shouldn't even respond to this, but this is just too much...

I live in New York City and we don't seem to be getting LTE anytime soon. I would tend to think that we are pretty big market. Not to mention that are all around data speeds on Sprint are just crap here.

 

I know that sprint wants to try and make money but my feeling is if you don't have the data service available you shouldn't sell phones that are capable of 4G LTE until you have the service available. And you certainly should be charging us for something we don't have. I'm paying an extra 10 dollars a month for service that isn't even available.

 

I've had my galaxy s3 for over 6 months and the service is just been terrible. And this is in New York City. Sprint needs to get the led out. When I purchase the phone the salesperson told me that we were supposed to be getting 4g LTE by the end of October. Never happened.

 

I tell you something else that isn't going to happen. I will not be renewing my contract in June when it's up. I would rather pay the extra money to Verizon and enjoy decent connections than keep paying sprint for something that they might get.

 

Sent from the other side!

 

I see your location is the Bronx, here is a screenshot from Sensorly (which is the first thing I see every time I open Sensorly maps on my phone)

 

 

 

I don't think anything good will come of this thread. I suggest just going ahead and closing it now.

Any idea what is up with the Gonzales site that was accepted a couple of weeks ago? I have gone by it several times in the past two weeks with no indication of 4G.

I went tower spotting with my youngest daughter this morning.

 

Lee @ Nicholson by Mike Anderson's - nothing

Burbank by Lakeside Bar and Grill - nothing

Highland @ Sotile behind Ruffino's - nothing

 

brief stop at Milk and Honey Gelato shop to make it all worthwhile for my daughter.

 

Oh, I forgot, I did stop by the Brec soccer complex on Burbank. The picture says it all:

 

With all the rain lately, the access road to this tower is under water.

Nothing in Gonzales today. Tried cycling airplane mode several times while at the the stop light at I-10 and highway 30.

I'll be going by the Gonzales site tomorrow on my way to church. Hopefully I can catch some LTE.

Have either of you looked at the tower behind the Bluebonnet post office? I work right near it but because of trees and buildings and the fact that it's on the PO property I can't tell what is on it. I believe Sprint is some where on it.

When I saw the title of this thread, I could just imagine Robert with his head in his hands saying to himself, "Oh great, this is just what I need." Now to educate all the newcomers on how this site works and all things NV, instill patience in people that want instant gratification, and appreciation for what we already have and what is in the works, all while encouraging Sprint to bring their A game. It's a tall order but you're doing a great job.

 

 

I went by this site yesterday. I couldn't find anything going or nor does it look different. Of course due to the privacy fence they could have something going on that I could not see, such as new basestation boxes or something like that.

 

I went by this site a couple of days ago after seeing the crane there. The gate was open and the were a couple of guys working on something. Unfortunate ly traffic was heavy and I had to get to work. I will continue to watch it for any changes.

Going up Perkins Rd on my way for lunch today I glanced over at the tower (http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2198-network-visionlte-new-orleans-market/page__view__findpost__p__62042) behind Baton Rouge Clinic by the railroad tracks. Hoping as always to see some ropes dangling down or something, but nothing, although with a second glance I noticed the top of a small crane just barely stinking above the trees but not tall enough to reach the the panels. Circling around on Picardy, I found that in addition to the crane there was a truck, a pickup and some some guys. It looked like they were lifting a cabinet over the fence and unloading some pallets of equipment on the ground.

It's funny that if you go to those coordinates in Google Maps (not Street View) you can see an AT&T van pulling out of the parking lot.

Thanks Robert. That does explain alot.

Using Sensorly I went back and looked at other carriers coverage at some of the other major airports in areas where Sprint has LTE coverage. In general it appears that Verizon has already begun upgrading their LTE within some airports.

I also notice you have the EVO, did you try cycling through airplane mode?

Yes, I have tried cycling through airplane mode with limited effectiveness. It has not helped within airports, though it has helped at times within other buildings. Because Baton Rouge does not have LTE yet, I only have limited ability to play around with the EVO LTE and 4G.

I suppose these explanations all make some sense. It just seems to me that busy airports would be a logical place for LTE because of the high volume of people using cell phones in them. Are there other business reasons, such as the airports charging higher fees for the right to install the antennas, or competition with the wifi vendors, or...?

Is there some sort of "incompatability" between airports and LTE?

 

I regularily fly through Houston or Dallas to San Francisco. I have been able to pickup 4G LTE out on the taxiways of both IAH and DFW but lose it as we get to the terminal. And on Sensorly it is pretty clear that nobody else has 4G within the terminals either, other than a few weak blips. Sensorly has purple all around SFO but not at SFO. What's the deal with that?

I'm confused. The picture I took is of the tower right where the icon indicating 1 network upgrade is located from the Sprint website. There is a tower on the south side of Essen, also just off of Picardy behind LPB, that doesn't appear to have anything on it. Could that one be a decommissioned Nextel site?

 

The other icon indicating 3 upgrades is right where the large tower behind the Bluebonnet Post Office is. Is Sprint on that tower?

This morning I went by the tower behind the Baton Rouge Clinic near Perkins and Essen and took a picture.

 

What am I looking at here? Which one Sprint, or are they all?

Are you aware of any work on the tower behind the Post Office on Bluebonnet, or anywhere along the Perkins Road corridor? Or where on the tower Sprint is located? If the PO tower were to fall in my direction it would just about hit my office.

 

I find it abit amusing that that right behind the Sprint store on Bluebonnet is a tower, which I assumed was Sprint's until one day I asked them about it. It seems to be a Verizon one.